The evolution of genetic architectures underlying quantitative traits

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1769, 2013, Pages

  Rajon, Etienne ^a   Plotkin, Joshua B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Copy number; Empirical quantitative trait loci; Genetic architecture; Polygenic; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MAPPING METHOD; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; THEORETICAL STUDY; YEAST;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84890819257     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1552     Document Type: Article

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